Love this breakdown of #ordinals 10ks by dabber.sats— to rephrase a bit, bitcoin punks are a low inscription (early number) collectible, where historicity is the fundamental draw for collectors. Since they are just copy/paste art, they’re basically a “fuck you, who cares about IP, we are still the first on bitcoin” and a reminder that often, when it comes to NFTs and collecting, and contrary to what people say, it’s not actually about the art.

A pure numeric, position play with a sprinkle of disregard for what’s “allowed” by artistic norms set by the influencer class.

First is first 🖼️

https://xcancel.com/elevateddabber/status/1867053647554810304

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What ordinals collection do you think will be the “Crypto Punks” of #ordinals ?

I think the social consensus for the “cryptopunks” of ordinals is nodemonkes but there are a number of 10k projects that had unique claims for being “first”, including bitcoin punks, honey badgers, OCM, and mega punks— natcats is also a first if you believe DMT will be significant in the future.

I would also point to 10k pfps on bitcoin stamps, which has a punks derivative collection as well as an original art stampepes collection, these store data in the utxo, unlike ordinals which live in witness data I think. Stamps development and popularity is way behind ordinals, however.

I should have guessed that from your PFP. Happy to find another ordinals enjoyer here on Nostr

I buy historic/technical collectibles and art just to collect— I don’t really follow the community hype or try to flip anything 🤙